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Update: Hanifa Abubakar: In a clampdown, Kano State Govt withdraws operational licences of all private schools

    By Ajuma Edwina Ameh     Following the abduction and killing of a five-year-old pupil, Hanifa Abubakar, by the proprietor of...

Update: School where 5-year-old nursery school girl was killed, buried, razed by aggrieved people

    The private school, Noble Kids School, Kano, where a five-year-old pupil, Hanifa Abubakar was killed and buried, has been set ablaze...

SERAP alleges FG spends loans secretly, takes Buhari govt to ECOWAS Court

        The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) filed suit No. ECW/CCJ/APP/05/22 by its lawyers — Messers Kolawole Oluwadare and...

Ibadan Disco slumps, taken over by AMCON

  The insolvent Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC), distributing power to Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Kwara and some parts of Ekiti, has been taken...

Alleged unremitted funds into FG’s accounts by NPA: It’s untrue, phony, fallacious, says ex-MD Bala-Usman

  Contrary to a story making the rounds that the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) failed to remit some funds into the Federal Government’s...

China Uses Anal Tests To Detect Omicron As COVID Variant Spreads

Chinese health authorities are ordering the use of controversial but more precise anal swabs to detect COVID-19 for a third year running as...

FG mulls special team for prosecution of crimes against journalists — MRA 

        The Federal Government says it is considering a request by the Media Rights Agenda (MRA) to set up a...

 SERAP to Buhari: Release agreement signed with Twitter or face legal action

  A seven-day ultimatum has been given to President Muhammadu Buhari to release a copy of the agreement recently signed with Twitter or...

Twitter suspension: Nigerian economy lost N555 billion — Spaces for Change

  More reactions have continued to trail the lifting of the ban on Twitter activities in Nigeria about 222 days after it was...

NUJ to journalists: Resist being used to settle personal scores, further personal interests

  The National Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has cautioned its members against using their media platforms and civic space...

Twitter: Ban lifted for 2023 election as Nigerians react

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh   After seven months, the Federal Government has finally lifted the suspension of micro-blogging and social networking service,...

Septuagenarian Pres. Buhari says spending long hours in office taking toll on him

    …so, really it is a lot of hard work, but I asked for it and I cannot complain      ...

Dowen College

Sylvester Oromoni update: LASG clears five students, staff as autopsy rules out murder

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh   Five students and five staff of Dowen College, accused of being involved in the death of 12-year-old...

Nigerian judiciary in dire straits in 2021

    By Ajuma Edwina Ameh   In 2021, the nation’s judiciary — the court and its officers — was on the flip...

2021 in review: the good, the ugly, the tragedies

  Like every other year in Nigeria, the year 2021 was not turmoil-free; it has its ups and downs. As Nigerians put the...

Lionel Messi tests positive for Covid-19

Paris Saint-Germain on Sunday announced that Lionel Messi has tested positive for Covid-19. The 34-year-old Argentine is one of four players who have...